Topic: General Purpose Star Wars discussion thread

[ShyGuy]

The best robot in the Star Wars extended universe is HK-47 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBma1kVfpnc

[UltimatePartyBear]

I was rather fond of Emtrey, Rogue Squadron's quartermaster.  Every time he couldn't procure something through official channels, they'd ask him to scrounge it up somehow, which activated some secret programming from his probably shady past.  A little while later, whatever it was would be there, and nobody dared ask how he managed it.

[Stratos]

Didn't it turn out that Emtrey was also running an entire side business of black market dealings?

Does anyone remember C-3PX, the droid that looked like C-3PO but had a whole bunch of built in weapons and was a wanted killer? He was in the Droids comic series.

[UltimatePartyBear]

I just found out the Expanded Universe has officially jumped the shark.  Someone wrote a run-of-the-mill zombie story set in Star Wars, and it actually got published.  Personally, I don't think zombies fit in Star Wars, but if you were going to do it you could at least make it some horrible Dark Side power instead of a stupid virus.  Is it a requirement that you have your imagination removed before writing about zombies or something?

(Apparently there were some horrible Goosebumps wannabe cash grabs written in the Star Wars universe in the 90s that sound like they had zombies in them, but I'm just going to try to forget I learned about any of this today.  Maybe I can beat it out of my head with a hammer.)

[Stratos]

Those were the 'Galaxy of Fear' books. My sister gave me one when we were younger 'because it was Star Wars' and it was cheesy as could be. Each one had a different 'scary alien-monster-myth' plot. I only ever read the first one but interestingly it involved a 'living planet' created by Imperial Scientists. In retrospect the whole 'Zomna Sekot' planet in the real cannon was an interesting parallel as I think both concepts were created around the same time.

Naw, those were nothing compared to the Jedi Prince series. These are ridiculous and have so many plot holes and inaccuracies it isn't even funny. It's almost like they ignored half of the movies plot points and made up their own crap. I could understand them just being wrong compared to the 'true cannon' as they were written well before there even was an Extended Universe cannon that all the authors adhered to but they have things like Lando still owning Cloud City as if he didn't lose it to the Empire, a hidden Jedi city under the surface of Yavin 4, the rebels still having a base on Yavin, a 12-year old 'Jedi Prince', an important Imperial meeting determining the next ruler of the Empire on Kessel of all places and the 'Prophets of the Dark Side' who made no sense whatsoever.